In America, Walt Disney opened an amusement park.And in Florence, someone was savaging the remnants of a Tuscan nobleman’s family.
With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight.
A day doesn't go by when I don't look at them, she said. I can't have them up on the kitchen refrigerator or in a frame in the bedroom--I just can't do it, I just can't run into them casually when I'm...
Though angels were easy to finds in cemeteries, she said that she didn't especially care for funereal angels and tombstone cherubs -- she wanted her angels among the living, not watching over the alre...
A smart girl is nobody's pushover and nobody's foe. A smart girl is both sword and smile.
Seriously, the banker went on, what do you investigate? I have a feeling you do more than find stray kittens and bring home lost babies.Murder.
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Gentlemen’s clubs—now there was a ridiculous euphemism
You want to know the definition of a consultant? A guy who borrows your watch to tell you what time it is.
Some are just businessmen.
During the war, I promised the dead I would never forget them. I stared at them, barely able to move myself. Pretended I was one of them. To this day I can recall the light in the ruins.
She knew the truth of men and women and booze: it rarely ended well for either gender, but it was the women who wound up raped.
Allah dwells in all men, even the infidel, he says.
So you’re positive the killer is a man.Yes, I think my gender can take responsibility for this one. Women don’t cut out other women’s hearts.We can.
Dead … might not be quiet at all.
A term came to her that they used on occasion at the shelter: the double bind...They used the expression in much the same way that they would use a term like catch-22.
We were too young- and the ground too muddy- for our small part of the earth to move.
Months earlier with Kristin,
This was the pain that gouged out great holes in the soul, hollowing out self-esteem and cratering a person's self respect
She didn't care so much whether the world would ever forgive her people; but she did hope that someday, somehow, she would be able to forgive herself.